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    Morning.

    Sunday.

    I seem to get up late on Sundays nowadays, dunno why, listening to NotLetterFromAmerica, the bird thing, and Paddy waffling on. Mostly coz it's reasonably warm in bed and not warm at all out here.

    Grey.

    Dark.

    Dank.

    Dreary.

    Wet.

    Sunless.

    Chilly in here at 11.1 deg, 10.5 deg in the kitchen, 8.5 deg in the leanto.

    986 mBar, 29.11 in Hg, 739.56 Torr, 14.3 psi, (down from 996 assuming I tapped it last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

    Meanwhile on the 23rd of December 2019 Brillo was on stronger painkillers whereas LM had been upset by some oysters, xogg had fallen over while washing the van & been helped by neighbours alerted by the cursing, I'd been for a walk, and NF had posted some links, the current oak island nutjobbery was S7.

    Lunch: brunch: much improved by the lack of Weetabix BBE 2014. .

    Entertainment: The Bad Skin Clinic (part). TWTW. <click>

    Freecell score: 89%, running average: 81%.

    Wind is rising & I haven't even had my beans on toast yet.

    Tea: beans on toast with boiled eggs and ham, nice enough.

    Entertainment: some bollox or other on R4 before the poetry tulipe went resoundingly <click>. How the feck can one miss the repeat that used to appear at 17:05 on a Sunday? Dunno but it was better than that tulipe.

    Finished the other other other other book, half by Poul Anderson (the other half "The 1000 year plan" (AKA "Foundation" without the last story) by Asimov was read last year).

    Mediaeval Dead. I wonder if there's any actual dead in this week's since they were noticeably absent from last week's offering.

    Er, Waterloo ain't mediaeval by any stretch of the definition FFS. Looking for the Waterloo dead from 1815. They weren't allowed to dig anywhere, though builders were digging holes left right & centre.

    Traitors: that lovely chap George Blake. Bastard lived until 2020.

    Look out! The orange moron has put a 25% tariff on Columbian Marching Powder.
    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 27 January 2025, 10:55.
    When the fun stops, STOP.

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      Wind not dying yet. Rain still heavy. No damage yet, I’ve done a walk around the garden and put some breeze blocks on the mower roof to help keep it on. Wind howling down the chimney, and I had been planning on lighting a fire.
      In the vain hope that this dies down, Max and I are on the sofa. Would like to get a walk in this morning, but it’s now looking unlikely.
      …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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        Turkey soup for lunch

        It's turned rainy here, and the wind's getting up too

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          We got tired waiting for the weather to improve, so while it was still windy and raining a little we went out. The lane was a river. We made it as far as a couple of fields, which I thought would allow us to get past a flood on one of the tracks. Instead, at the top of the second field was a torrent of water coming off the track. Turned around, walked round the fields again, this time with a hail storm and thunder, then headed for home.
          The sky is now blue, the sun is shining, and we are curled up in front of the fire.
          …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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            Evening all

            This morning was dull but dry. Then I left to drive down to see Mum and the heavens opened, remaining that way for the entire journey. A bit of a breeze too. Currently 8 degrees ('feels like' 6) with 9 degrees being the high for the day. Barometer down to 984 mBar.

            Sunrise 07:48; Sunset 16:40

            My brother came over and we attempted to talk to Mum about her demands to move to Woking. However, it was a very circular discussion with much repetition. She's lonely and rattling around a bungalow that's too big so we completely get why she wants to move. However, her siblings in Woking aren't going to look after her or provide the level of companionship she's expecting. She'll just be sat indoors, alone, somewhere else where my brother can't pop round at a moment's notice when someone steals the stapler.

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              Tea: a sausage and bacon baguette

              I discovered I'd accidentally bought unsmoked bacon again. I wish they'd stop rearranging those shelves; I'm certain it was smoked in that spot a couple of weeks ago

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                Towels have been washed.

                No tea as I had a late lunch / early dinner with Mum and I'm not hungry.

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                  Today's viewing was mostly the usual chunk of Monkey Life this morning. This brought us to the end of S14, so next weekend is the first half of S15; meaning in a couple of weeks, we should be on S16, which I haven't seen before

                  This evening, tea was accompanied by Surgeons: A Matter of Life and Death on C5. Somehow it didn't feel as interesting as the BBC equivalents; maybe the pacing was off? Still, it was OK.

                  It's raining more here, and judging by the radar, will continue overnight even more heavily, as well as getting windier

                  Monday again tomorrow

                  Goodnight all

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                    Morning denizens

                    Blustery sort of day out there after a rainy night. Looks as if it'll be quite clear though, with a lot of blue sky showing through as the clouds move away. Relatively mild in theory but not in reality, being 5° but "feeling like" -4°, with 7° as the expected high point. The barometers are all the way down at 965/973mB

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                      Morning all
                      Stormy overnight again, and our water has gone off.
                      At least it was dry on our walk. Now clouding over again. Gloomy Monday
                      …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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